Join us for our 61st Annual Rock, Mineral, Gem & Earth Science Show. It's fun for the whole family. Come checkout local kids education presentations and vote for your favorite. Learn something new from our multiple educational areas. Pick up a gift for that special someone or that extra special person, yourself. You can never [...]
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Libby is currently working on her doctorate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is one of the two recipients of the Midwest Federation of Mineralogical and Geological Society's scholarship selected by KMGS's own Bernice McCloskey in 2018. Libby shared a fascinating presentation on glaciers and what they leave behind. She also brought some of [...]
The 12 Days of Hunting Sing to the tune of "The 12 Days of Christmas" On the first day of Hunting, my true love gave to me A Convoy and a canteen On the second day of Hunting, my true love gave to me Two tourmalines And a Convoy and a canteen On the [...]
KMGS Christmas Carol – Sing to the tune of “Silver Bells”! Chorus Silver Bells (silver bells) Silver Bells (silver bells) Its Christmas time in the city Ring- a-ling (ring-a-ling) hear them ring (hear them ring) Soon it will be Christmas day. Verse One On a rock pile, there were miners, excavating for gems In the [...]
Mazon Creek Concretions at Coal City Illinois Saturday morning early; about five am, we drove south to Coal City Illinois. We met with some fellow Rock Hounds from ESCONI (Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois) and went to an abandoned tailings pile outside of town, left idle since the coal mines closed in the mid 1960's. [...]
CONGRATULATIONS While perusing the latest issue of the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies Newsletter, I noticed that one of our members has received honorable mention in the AFMS category of “adult articles". This is in addition to the second place award in this category from the Midwest Federation. The article “MOONWALKING” is posted on our [...]
We had a beautiful day for our KMGS picnic at Nixon park in Hartland. About 25 to 30 members showed up to "talk rocks", show off what they have found so far this summer, swap stories, and make plans for future field trips. And of course EAT. John Rettler presented a new [...]
The Irene Mine – Belvidere IL. July 16th, 2017 On Sunday morning the ESCONI (Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois, invited the KMGS to “piggy-back” on a field Trip with them to the Irene Mine near Belvidere Illinois. The open-pit style Dolomite Limestone Mine is known for exposing Gastropods, Cephalopods, Brachiopods, Trilobites, Horn Coral and [...]
